Texas 3D-printing company Icon has launched Initiative 99, an architecture competition to design affordable housing units costing less than $99,000 to build. The competition has a total prize fund of…

The municipality of Dubai has issued its first printing construction licence for private use, allowing a villa to be extruded in one session in the city’s northern Al Awir 1…

A printer intended for use in Africa has been launched by a joint venture between Swiss cement maker Holcim and the UK government’s British International Investment (BII) agency. 14Trees says…

Peri 3D Construction is set to create Europe’s first 3D printed football clubhouse in Nordkirchen, Germany. It aims to print the two-story, 330-sq-m building for the third division SC Capelle…

A US-based 3D print construction company, Hive 3D, is printing five affordable homes made with near-zero carbon concrete in the tiny Texas town of Round Top, west of Houston. It…

Florida-based contractor Printed Farms has printed a luxury horse barn in Wellington, Florida, creating what Danish printer-maker Cobod says is the biggest 3D printed building in the world. The 940-sq-m…

This week GCR reported on Europe’s first 3D printed school taking shape in Lviv, western Ukraine. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint for getting more than 5 million children…

A humanitarian project is underway to print a 506.5-sq-m primary school in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, with completion expected in weeks. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint…

Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) has printed a two-storey medical centre in Saraburi, Thailand, billed as the first of its kind in the world. It used Danish printer-maker Cobod’s BOD2…

Start-up Azure Printed Homes will create 26 affordable 3D printed homes for “Veterans Village,” a new development in Twentynine Palms, southern California. Each of the houses will measure 900 sq…

Californian headquartered prefabricated building company Mighty Buildings will open a 3D printed building factory in Monterrey, northern Mexico, to cater to the US market. It will make all components needed…

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Texan 3D-printing company Icon will design the extension and refurbishment of a 21-acre campground in Marfa, west Texas, for hotelier Liz Lambert. El…

A joint venture of cement giant Holcim and British International Investment, called 14Trees, has printed 10 houses for sale in Kenya.

The Politecnico di Milano is leading an international consortium developing metal 3D printing techniques to help construction save energy and cut waste. The consortium, “ConstructAdd”, believes that printing customised components…

Construction has begun on the 100-home Wolf Ranch community in Georgetown, Texas, which is being printed by a“ fleet of robots”. The project was designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels…

Leica’s BLK2FLY flying laser scanner is among the 200 devices to make Time Magazine’s annual best inventions list. Other construction-related gadgets to make the list include non-instrusive subsurface mapping, 3D-printed…

Danish utility Ørsted has teamed up with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to test the effect of 3D-printed reefs on marine ecosystems in the Kattegat strait between Denmark and Sweden.